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English
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Lincoln, Douglas, and Popular Sovereignty : The Mormon Dimension
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Lincoln Revisited : New Insights from the Lincoln Forum
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New York
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Fordham University Press
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45-56
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"The famed 1858 debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas centered on Douglas's strident defense of popular sovereignty. Douglas defended the right of citizens of Kansas Territory to vote slavery 'up or down' while Lincoln insisted that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had already settled the issue. To Lincoln, popular sovereignty jeopardized the intent of the founders to place slavery 'in the course of ultimate extinction.' Throughout the debates, Lincoln refrained from mentioning Utah Territory, where settlers employed popular sovereignty to maintain a theocracy despised by others." [From author's introduction]